My Heart Burns in Flames, and You Await Me at the End of the Nightmare

Cheng Xiao, a senior in high school, kept her obscure crush buried in the deepest part of her desk. Then it was exposed to the entire school in the most devastating way: the love letter she had written to Cao Xuanyu, the school’s golden boy, was torn to pieces and posted on the noticeboard for everyone to mock and criticize. With his new girlfriend in his arms, he humiliated Cheng Xiao in front of everyone, calling her “trash who doesn’t deserve to talk about love.”

Her nightmare began. Bullied, ostracized, slandered, and misunderstood by the people closest to her, Cheng Xiao watched her world crumble piece by piece. A carefully staged “confession” sent her straight to hell, and death seemed like the only escape.

What she didn’t know was that the humiliation had begun with a misunderstanding, born of sheer bad luck. Behind Cao Xuanyu’s cold contempt lay an immense, unspeakable shadow and a deeply twisted form of “protection.” When he finally tore off his disguise, what emerged was even deeper despair than hers, along with a possessive love that bordered on obsession.

One fights desperately to escape, the other frantically keeps them prisoner. Desire and hatred intertwine, dragging them both into an abyss of torment, until a blazing inferno nearly reduces everything to ashes...

“If loving you is a calamity, I’ll give my life to the flames.”

“Only at the end of all that hatred did I realize that you were the only one who ever etched yourself into my heart.”